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  <recipe>
    <head>
      <title>1994 2nd Place Surprise Packages</title>
      <categories>
        <cat>Cookies</cat>
        <cat>Holiday</cat></categories>
      <yield>36</yield></head>
    <ingredients>
      <ing-div>
        <title/>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1</qty>
            <unit>cup</unit></amt>
          <item>Unsalted butter, softened</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>2 1/4</qty>
            <unit>cups</unit></amt>
          <item>All-purpose flour</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1/3</qty>
            <unit>cups</unit></amt>
          <item>Confectioners'sugar, sifted</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1</qty>
            <unit>teaspoon</unit></amt>
          <item>Pure vanilla extract</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1</qty>
            <unit>teaspoon</unit></amt>
          <item>Water</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>36</qty>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Thin layered chocolate</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty/>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Mint wafers (or other</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty/>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Flavor miniature</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty/>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Chocolates), unwrapped</item></ing></ing-div>
      <ing-div>
        <title>ICING</title>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty/>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Confectioners' sugar</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty/>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Milk</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty/>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Food color, colored</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty/>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Sprinkles as desired</item></ing></ing-div></ingredients>
    <directions>
      <step>   Preparation time: 2 hours Cooking time: 15 to 20 minutes
  
   1. Heat oven to 325 degrees. Have ready ungreased baking sheets.
   2. Beat butter in large bowl of electric mixer until light and fluffy.
  Beat in half of the flour, the sugar, vanilla and water until thoroughly
  combined.  Beat in the remaining flour.
   3. Use a scant 1 tablespoon of dough and press it flat and thin with your
  hands. Put a chocolate mint wafer in the center and fold the dough over to
  completely cover each chocolate and to form a neat, rectangular package.
  Pinch the edges to seal. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheets.
    4. Bake until bottoms are lightly browned, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool a few
  minutes on the baking sheets and then cool completely on wire racks.
   5. For icing, mix confectioners' sugar and milk to make a thin icing;
  color icing as desired. Use a small spatula to ice cookies. Decorate as
  desired so cookies resemble Christmas packages.
  
   For variety, second-place winner Carol Feezell of Skokie, Illinois uses
  several kinds of miniature candies in her pretty cookies. She suggests
  filling the cookies with chocolate mint wafers, such as Andes, or Hershey's
  Miniatures. We also enjoyed Lindt's orange chocolate thins when we made the
  cookies in the Tribune test kitchen. from the Chicago Tribune seventh
  annual Food Guide Holiday Cookie Contest December 8, 1994
  Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #338
  
  From: Linda Place &lt;placel@worldnet.att.net&gt;
  
  Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:22:58 +0000
 
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